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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-02-03, Page 6• NEW VALEAIUTA, SULTANA, LONDON LAYERS AND DLK, BASKET RAISINS. N7.`W SEASON'S CURRANTS, PANTWED P.EEI,,S-•-LBMQN, ORANGE AND iCITRON; ESSENCES? EXTRACT$, SPICES, ORA, GES, FIGS, DATES, AO- CANDIES CHEAP. • I have; 'elteolle.nt value in highestgrades of BLACK TEAS, FORMOS OOLONGS, MONING CONGOUS, PACKI.ING, half chest and caddies. r'RY OUR OIr PURE INDIA AND CEYLON TEAS, B1.P;ND put cup in ono pound packages at 50 cents per lb. Befit value in. PACKAGE TEAS in the market. J 0 • Extra Value in Crockery, China and Glassware, CHINA TEA AND TOILET SETS, CHEAP. . We offer Special Inducements during the Holiday Trade to Cash .Purchasers. 0 9 4/63vi. t. The Huron Nexus -Record 81.50 a Ye,a-81 e5 in Advance, liVtcdnesrlav Feby. 3rd, 189% A FOOLISH QUARREL. One late October day a good many years ago, two largo ox teams stopped at a point where the high- way forked in two rough cart tracks, one running up the right, the other the left side of Spur hill out west. The ox wagons wore laden with house hold goods and farmingtools, and the oxen were driven by two loon whose close resemblance to each other showed that they were brothers. 13ehiud each tears walk- ed a boy leading a cow, and rode a avoman on horseback, each of the women having a small child on the horse irt,frou.t and a larger one on. the pilliou behind her. On one of the ox wagons, sitting straight and secure on a rather lofty perch, was a rosy-cheeked girl of twelve or thirteen. The little, newly -settled town of Gratton lay three miles be- hind the, travelling company. They had passed through the village in the mid-afternoon, but the ox team had moved very slowly. and the day darkened early. It was almost dusk when they reached the fork of Spur hill. The foremost man stop- ped his team and weut back to speak to the other. "Brother,' said he, "we night as well make camp one night -lore. Here's a good open space before us, the night's mild. and there's dry fire. wood hero about, plenty." "We're 'prettyittaar Though, DO w,""Alligtigrer the other. "It's a good mile fur- ther," replied John Forbush, the first speaker- "The critters aro tired, and so are tho worsen and children, '•I'would bo pitch dark before we could get through, and we'd be full as comfortable here for the night. after all." "Well, webbe it's the best way," consented Ben Forbush, the younger brother. The tired oxen were released from the cart and, along with the cows, were soon munching hay in a little rope • yard, improvised in the shelter of the bluff. John and Ben Forbush began driving the states for their tont,, and their wives took from the wagons the few household uten ails and the provisions wanted for supper. John and Ben, junior, took their stns and startod•ur over the front of the spur to cut a supply -Of wood -foe -the -night's -camp-fi're • Though the elder John and Ben Forbush were so much alike that strangers could scarcely tell them ??part, thorn was not much resem- blance between their eldest sons. Young Ben was slim and wiry, with nervous black oyes and quick mo tion like his -nother ; and young John closely resembled hia own mother, who was a tall, fair -blonde, of quite speech and deliberate man- ner. John was rather overgrown for his years, and though two months younger than his cousin Ben, was fully half a head taller. The lads bad been close companions since their babyhood. and were attached to each other, boy fashion, but their differing temperaments and dis- position often clashed, though they • seldom came to an open quarrel Both were tired after their long day's journey, and both felt cross and hungry. John walked ahead, swinging his axe in an aimless fashion, while Ben, with his axe over his ehoulder, scrambled along up the hill after his taller and stouter cousin. "Don't g) so fast, John," he panted, as they reached the top of a hluff where a lot of dead pine boughs, scattered about, showed a good supply of kindling ready to the hand. "What?" exclaimed John, turn- ing suddenly about. Ben was near- er to him than lie supposed, and his axe swinging backward, the helve hit Ben smartly ou the shin. Bon gave an exclamation of pain. John was sorry, and was on the point of saying so, but Ben gave him no chance. "You great blunderheels !" he explained hotly, rubbing his bruis- ed leg. "Can't you look and see tvhat you are doing 1 Slashing your axe around that way 1 If the blade had been turned this way, you'd have cut my leg half off." John's expression of sympathy was checked ou his lips. "Poah 1" ho exclaimed, coolly, you know I didn't moan to. What's the use of making such a fuss over a little thing like that? You're a regular chicken.','' "And you're a great clumsy calf." retorted Ban. "My mother says you never know what to do with ,your hands and feet, and you don't. I'm glad I ain't such an awkward, over grown fellow." The flood flushed up hotly into John's blonde face. Ho was just at the age to feel keenly any reference to his growth and awkwardness. The truth was that Ben, and Ben's mother, too, realiy admired John's straight, strong figure and strength of limb, but John did not suspect it. "You little rat 1" he retorted, frowning angril,y-_a.telien, -1!ve a good mind' to Cling you off of the bluff here." The boy's had halted near the edge of a cliff, pitching down abruptly to a rocky hollow Ivhere some long -ago convulsion of nature had rent a chasm in the hill. Beyond and above them reached the forest covering the face of Spur hill, the slopes of which, never yet tho home of a white rnan, were to be their inheritance. Clouds, drift- ed over the silent woods, and their .depths looked dim and dense in 'the gethering shadows. They wore on the borders of a now home, the onteranco to a new life which must be one of hard work, self-restraint and mutual help ; .and they were facing each other angrily in the folly of a boyish quarrel. Ben was far the angrier of the two. His wroth made him forget his fatigue, and...nee.ved -.hi$1 . with -a fur-iiuie strength which 'made him feel as if he might punish his big cousin, Try it, if you want to !" he cried, "I dare you to touch mo. I'll make you sorry for it as big as you are." John really did not want to fight. Not that he was afraid of Ben, but the occasion was too trivial. Be- sides, they had more importantbuei- ness in hand. "Fudge !" he exclaim- ed, after a moment's pause. "Don't be foolish, ]3n ! Como along and get the wood before it is any later." John's coolness exasperated Ben to greater angor. With a sudden movement he threw himself upon his cousin, and by a wrestling trick knows to both of the boys, but which took John by surprise, threw him from his feet, and they rolled together on the ground. Now, John was thoroughly angry in bis turn. Ben rained a shower of blows upon bis head and face be• fore John could throw him off and strike back. Then John's strength of arm began to give him the.ad- vantage, and the blows were return- ed with heavy interest. Striking and struggling, neither one able to gain their feet while the other was cher JS a complaint from which Too esker and Sew are entirely free, Its (rl} le indigestion and a sluggish liver, the' pure foris readily found In the Aso of Ayeee Pills. 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"I was troubled for years with indi- gestion, constipation, and headache. .A few boxes of Ayer's Pills, used in email daily doses, restored me to health. They are prompt and effective." --W. E. Strout, Meadville, Pa. Ayer's Pills, KOMI= BY Dr. J. 0. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass, Gold by alt Druggists and Doalerr in Medlclna clutching him, the foolish boys rolled gradually nearer and nearer to the cliff edgo, too full of fury to realize where they were moving. It was not long an equal contest. John was soon upporrnost again, and piuning Ben to the ground, ho demanded wrathfully : "Will you gine it up nowt" "No, I won't 1" cried Ben. "You haven't Beaton oto yet, and yon ain't going to," and he struck John a violent blow on the nose. Then the struggle bean again, and with every desperate movement the short space between them and the precipice narrowed. The'grouud was slightly eloping here, and in Ben's latt frantic effort to reverse their positions, while his arms were tightly grappled about John's waist, suddenly the boys felt the solid ground roll away beneath them and realized that they wore falling. Sixty feet below . them you red a chasm of jagged rocks. Bushes and shrubs grow out from the cliff's side, but they were in- sufficient to greatly break the force of a fall down the steep incline. Fortunately, an oak bough of stout growth, springing from bo- tween the ledges near the top of the cliff from which it grow out almost horizontally, was within •John's reach, in the horrible moment when he felt himself rolling over the brink. IIe ciasped,his arms around it and checked the fall. Bon, too, with ono arm still clasped about John's waist, gained a hold of the bough with one hand,.and so dangl- ing over the precipice from this slight support, the boys hung, their anger suddenly cooled, the faces which had been red with anger now white with fear. And while they hung there the boys knew, all at once, that they loved each other, and that the world would be a lonely and sorrowful place for either, if his life long com- rade and playmate were not in it. "Can you hold on, Jack?" Asked Beni -whoa! ° chin just rested on John's shoulder, and who was hang- ing with nearly his whole weight depending on one slender arm. "I guess so" said John. "Get a good grip ou my belt, Ben. Per- haps we can make the folks hoar if we shout together." Their voices rose in a loud, long cry for help, which it seemed to the boys might be hoard for miles. Then they listened and waited. A great bird skimmed overhead. and a scared squirrel ran along the' oak limb and scuttled away into the deafening wood; and then all was still. The boys called again and again. The strain on their arms was grow- ing very painful, and it seemed im• possible to hold on many minutes more, .There_ was no answer'ine -• voice' and no sound but the rattling of pebbles, dislodged by tbo shaking of the oak bough and sliding down the rocky cliff. "They can't hear us," groaned Ben. "We're too high up. And we never can hold on until they miss us and come to look us up." "Ben, look along the rock and see if there is any place that I can roach to get a rest for my heels without letting go of the tree." As the boys had rolled over the edge of the cliff, John's back was toward the rock and Ben was fac- ing it. Looking along the rough surface, Ben saw a short bit of ledge which projected a few inches from the face of the rock An its widest part. "Edge backword a little if you can, John," he directed. "Draw your arm up a little higher and move your right foot up about a hand's breadth against the rook. If you pan get your heels on that ledge and keep tight hold of the tree, I believe I can climb tip over you and then help pull you up." John can- tiously made the effort. Moving b - bnokwe,rd such b' luoh, wh,ilo.. lien clung firmly to the leather belt about his waist, he sugaeoded in hnd,ing a lodging far hue heels, To d(7. Olio, he had. to release one hand from its hold en the tree. and sling vith;.the other,: while with the free •band•he helped to steady Ben as he loosened,hls hold on the bough and, eluiohing,Jphn's,ly@iet and should., ore, triedi Qlivab'up.'atd,a • ' Now, viae fortunate,` indeed, that John was strong and muscular, that lien was light and ;nimble -and wiry. It was a perilous moment for both, while, nerved by the ter - tibia danger below and clinging with a desperate grip to John's clothing, Ben raised' himself until his knee rested on John's shoulders and hie hands grasped the edgo of the cliff. The oak shrub now help- ed him to a firmer hold, and soon he had •reached the solid ground above. Then hastily slipping off his stout homoapuu frock, Ben knotted a sleeve firmly around the oak bough and guided the garment within the reach of John's hand. Using this to steady himself, John carefully drew one foot forward along the ledge until ho found a crevice in which his heel could rest. Luckily, the cliff here sloped backward to- ward the top. His foothold was a narrow one, but it supported him, and slowly John's stout shoulders camp shoving upward over the top of the cliff. Now he could find a. support for his knee on the oak limb, and now Bon, lying braced on the cliff above, could reach his hands and help him in the final stout struggle. In a minute more he was standing beside Ben on the cliff and looking down with a thrill of terror over the precipice to the threaj,ening rocks they had both escaped. Half way down the hill, as they_ came in sight of the camp below with the newly -kindled fires twink- ling up through the darkness, Ben stopped. "Jack 1 I was a fool to pick a quarrel with you," he exclaimed. "And I'm aorry I hit you, Ben," returned John. "I didn't mean to." "I'll never fight you again," ho added, "if I live to bo a hundred." And that was, indeed, their last quarrel. SHEDIDN'T CLUB THE DOG. A SHARP ENCOUNTER WITH A CATAMOUNT. Louisa Boernor, a 12 year old German girl, living with her parents near one of Ole Bull's old settle- rneuts in tho southern part of Pennsylvania, had bean working for a week or so in a family living a mile or so from her home, and when she quit.thoir service, one day last week, the'farmer's wife.mado her a 'present of a pair of live geese. The girl started for home early in the morning, driving her geese. Mid- way between the farmer's where she had been working and her own home was another farmer's, and a coach dog, or Dalmatian hound, be- longing to the farmer, which had a reputation for ' being aggressively fierce. When Louisa Goerner and her geese camp within sight of that farm, the girl saw the dog sitting by the roadside in front of the house. "1 'Wasn't"ai'raid o Llie'dvg "for myself," Louisa afterward said, "but I was afraid ho would fly at my geese." So when the girl saw the dog she hunted up a heavy club at the road• side, and.resolved to defend her geese with it against the dog if be attacked them. On one side of the road a heavy piece of woods extends for a long distance. Louisa had driven her geese but a few yards after picking up the club when she saw something .spring from the woods close to the road, seize one of her geese and drag it towards the woods. The girl reaped, forward to the aid of her loudly squaking goose, and dealt the animal that hadseized it a heavy blow across the back with her club. The animal, which was a -big wildcat, lot go of the goose and sprang toward the girl. She struck it again with the club, .acid` fell to the ground from the force of the blow. The wildcat jumped ,upon her, and tore her dress nearly off her with one sweep of its long, sharp claws, and torn the fleeh on hershoulder. The frightened goose, squawking loudly, and hurt so that it could only flutter about in the road, then seemed to be more tempt ing to the wildcat than the girl was, and it sprang away and again seized the goose. Louisa hurriedly regain- ed her feet, and, unmindful of her torn clothes and bleeding shoulder, grabbed her club and ran to the defence of her goose again. But her aid was not needed, for the first thing she saw was the dreaded coach dog coming up the road like a whirl- wind, and before she realized the fact he had the wildcat by the neck, and with one crunch of his teeth and a shake of his head, he etreteh• ed the catamount dead at the road- side. irl picked up her goose, whic �':, ad a broken wing, a torn leg, and'Za [idly lacerated neck. The other go had been so badly frightened by he attack of the wild- eneneeeinomenetine etke o +it4 .AwItliCrt, licANSpr 17I, At,,Att> , 9t? + George Patt~er840 Fell A910 •n Secona,stOrY window �,e estriking a fetice., 1 flounnd'hia ugjin, S%. JACO. +!• I+•X1t1+r He 'used it freely all over his bruises, ISO! . him next morning at work. •A11 the blueepotrtt rapidly disappeared, leavin nether psi., scar nor swelling. C. X,1•1,MMIA, eat that it had squatted in a fence corner, Louisa started it out, and, carrying the wounded fowl in her arme,driving its companion on before her. Tiro dog trotted along at her aide, and would not leave her until she was safely at home with her geese, when ho trotted leisurely back borne. The wildcat was a male, of unusual size, and its mate was killed:a few hours later in the same lacality, by a wan who . was pheasant hunting. HEIR LOVER PROVED FALSE. THE GALT POISONING CASE RECALLED. CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Disappointed because her lover refused to marry her, Hannah Boyd, pretty and graceful, was taken from her auut's home, 855 South Halsted street, a raving maniac. She was a dres- maker by trade, and when she came to this city from her Canadian home she comonced work. Miss Boyd became acequaintod with Max Dietrich, a coachman. Max paid considerable attention to her, had promised to marry her, and the wed- ding day was not far our. Last Sun day night Dietrich called at her home and before he went away quarrelled with his sweet -heart end declared that he would break his promise of marriage end that he tvouid never see her again. The young woman's mind seemed to become affected at once. She raved in her sleep and kept crying out, "Max ! Max !" until she lost all power of reason. All night she kept muttering, "Max, you do not love me, What shall I do V' Yesterday morning she was sunt to the detention hopital. The Hannah Boyd mentioned in 'the above despatch is a Ilamilton girl. Several yeare.ago she was ar- rested on suspicion or being impli- cated in the Gale,poisoniug case, but, after beiug detained for three weeks, she was allowed to go. The young women's parents live on Elgin street, Hatnilton. When -she wan -eel -eased from Berlin jail she returned home and was terribly cut up over the affair. The author- ities kept her iu solitary confine'. meet and would not even allow her parents or a lawyer to ,neo her. Their plan was to force her to toll all she know abort the tragedy, but when they discovered she knew no- thing they released lier. Miss Boyd went to Chicago over a year age. A letter was received by the girl's parents informing then of her mis- fortune. Since she had been in Chicago Miss Boyd has lived with her aunt. The girl is exceedingly goodlooking. A TALE OF LOVE AND BLOOD. A YOUNG GIRL RUN AWAY FROM HOME TO MARRY HER LOVER. Martha Morton, sixteen years old, and a very. beautiful girl, of Dekalb county, Alabama, passed through to Cookville, Tex., where she goes to join her lover, Andrew Bynum, whom she will Marry. A terrible story of bloodshed is told in connection with the girl's flight. She became acquainted with Bynuur a year ago, when site was on a visit to Alabama, and has since been corresponding with him, but her father bitterly objezted. Bynum sent her money with which to go to Texas, anti on Friday she ran away from home, going to the home, of her brother-in-law, TIihi Sloan,' a noted moonshincr. The father gave chase, and, reaching Sloan's house on Saturday, he demanded to know the whereabouts of his daughter, who had been hidden. A row oc- curred between•Sloan and Morton, which resulted in the former shoot. ing and killing the latter. On Sat- urday afternoon the girl mounted a horse and rode fifteen miles out of the mountains to Fort Wayne, where she took the train for Texas. She said that, despite the death of her father, she would marry Bynum. The dead man was ,postmaster at Candy Mills. The murderer is at large. THE GREAT ATLANTIC LINERS. All parry St. Jacobs Oil—in fact, no ship waiting from London oraLiyerpool is considered ready for sea until sufficient quantity of St. Jacobs Oil is on board to last the voyage. St. Jacobs Oil conquers pain. • It acts like magic. It pene- trates ; it reaches the Beat •of the disease, and relieves pain directly. It is wholly an outward application for the speedy and permanent cure of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout, Sciatica, soreness, sprains and .trains. 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Upon, being liberated, however, the dee- perste animal camp to life and gave - his captor a terrible fight and had not timely assistance arrived that hunter would have been hilled. Hearing the cries of its mate e;+ second wolf carne dashing through the witches ,a'1 fi h ePtertile" iTISfol ;'. ' and seriously injured him before as bullet from another hunter's breech- loader settled the infuriated anti -- m al. A MONSTER. WHO COWARDLY BLAMES HIS WIa'e The trial of Frank Schneider and his wife for tha murder of Dight servant girls was resumed ate Vienna list week. Tho prosocutiom succeeded in getting Schneider tae confess that ho murdered all thee victims' after outraging them.. Schneider volunteered to tell horse the murders were committed and dramatically went through tll`a' hood -curdling performances. He, showed how ho used to seize thio struggljng victims by the breast. with his left hand; and with -'fries powerful right hand clutched thea, by the throat and thus strangle t&le poor creatures. In concluding hie confession,, Schneider said that he had rlml• trilled the first woman he had out- raged and robbed, because he ha.s3i not at that time had the practice ire the method of strangling which )iso afterwards acquired. Schneidtre. threw the guilt of the murdere ort his wife, who, he said, decoyed thee girls to their fate on the pretence cJD employing them. —Miss Alice Mitchell, aged nine- teen, the daughter of a retires furniture dealer, one afternoon eel Miss Freda Ward's throat from earn to ear on one of the leading streets of Memphis, Tenn. The victims,, who is from Golddust, Ark., diedi shortly afterwards. It is alleged by several persons that Miss Ward ban'' made remarks of a decidedly tam - complimentary nature regarding; Miss Mitchell, and this latter allega- tion is supposed to have been the - cause of the tragedy. Miss Mitchell; is now in jail.